Tracy P Alloway

Associate Professor
• Graduate Program Director

Psychology • College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Theory of Working Memory

I am interested in how working memory develops across the lifespan. I am also interested in how culture impacts working memory and am involved in a range of projects with colleagues in Europe, South America, Asia, and South Africa

Working Memory in Education

I have published a number of studies on the role of working memory in learning from Kindergarten to High School. I am also interested in the benefits of training Working Memory. I have also published research on the role of working memory in learning in students with ADHD, Motor Dyspraxia, Reading and Language difficulties, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Working Memory and Mental Health

I collaborate on a number of projects investigating the relationship between Working Memory in anxiety, depression, and optimism.

Education

Ph.D. Psychology University of Edinburgh, UK

M.Sc Psychology University of Edinburgh, UK

B.Sc. Psychology Liberty University

Biography

Tracy PackiamAlloway (www.tracyalloway.com) is a Psychology professor and Graduate Program Director at the University of North Florida. She was awarded an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2015), as well as the Outstanding International Leadership Award (2014). She was also the recipient of the prestigious Joseph Lister Award (for “outstanding skills in communicating to a non-specialist audience”) from the British Science Association.

Tracy’s research has contributed to scientific understanding of working memory and specifically in relation to education and learning needs. She has shared her research to national organizations, such as the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and as well as internationally to organizations such as the Japanese Society for Developmental Psychology and the Center on Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk in Germany, among others.

She also provided advice to the World Bank on the impact of memory and learning in deprived populations. In addition to over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, 7 books, and 2 standardized test batteries on the topic of working memory, her work has also been featured on Good Morning America, the Today Show, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, and many others. She blogs for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post.

Awards

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNF 2015

Outstanding International Leadership Award, UNF 2014

Joseph Lister Award for Social Science, British Science Association 2009

Short-listed for the Michael Young Prize, Economic and Social Research Council UK 2006